Category Archives: Concurrency

Continuations using C++11

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PPL Task While playing with the concurrency features in C++11, I noticed that there wasn’t any support for continuations.  As a learning exercise I decided to develop something similar to tasks in The Parallel Patterns Library (PPL), where a task  can run asynchronously and execute a continuation upon completion using the then  member … Continue reading →

Producer-Consumer Pattern Implementations: AAL v STL

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Producers and Consumers

I have come across a few good examples of the Producer-Consumer pattern, however they tend to use contrived examples that don’t correlate well to a real world example.  I realise that the examples are generally contrived for the sake of brevity and in order to keep them clear and concise.  I admit that the … Continue reading →